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MPR News keeps track of the latest education news in Minnesota so you can understand the events shaping the future of learning and how it impacts students at any level.

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Senate bill leaves stadium alcohol policy up to regents

Senate bill leaves stadium alcohol policy up to regents

This from the Associated Press, and the proposed legislation comes after that. (MPR’s Tim Post will be following up on the story, though, so tune in for more. I’ll put up any updates that I get from him.) Lawmaker serves up new Mpls. stadium booze bill Minnesota lawmakers are coping with their three-year hangover: Whether…
by Alex Friedrich

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Legislature debates teacher tenure, pay and benefits

Legislature debates teacher tenure, pay and benefits

Is this a good time to change collective bargaining, the tenure system, evaluation, pay and benefits for teachers? What should be done to get good teachers in the classroom?
by Tom Dooher

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Inver Hills to MIT, Purdue: Bring it on

Inver Hills to MIT, Purdue: Bring it on

More than a dozen Inver Hills Community College students are set to compete against the likes of MIT and Purdue in NASA’s rocket competition for colleges and universities in Alabama next week. Inver Hills will be the only Minnesota school — and one of only two community colleges — to attend the competition this year.…
by Alex Friedrich

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Rainy River provost: No talk of closure so far

Rainy River provost: No talk of closure so far

Listening to State Rep. Tom Rukavina (DFL-Virginia) over the past few higher-ed budget hearings, you might think Rainy River Community College in International Falls was on the brink of closure. He has said that proposed legislative cuts would slash more than $2,100 from the college, which has only about 342 students (full- and part-time). House…
by Alex Friedrich

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Community college rocket team ready for NASA contest

Community college rocket team ready for NASA contest

Inver Hills Community College isn't known for rocket science, but a team of 15 students from the school in Inver Grove Heights is ready to put their rocket up against engineering powerhouses like MIT and Purdue University.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Ries named president of Concordia – St. Paul

Ries named president of Concordia – St. Paul

The Rev. Tom Ries has been named president of Concordia University in St. Paul, and is expected to start July 1. Ries, a former VP for finance and operations at Concordia and president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation, will replace the Rev. Dr. Robert Holst, who is retiring. Ries should make his formal acceptance…
by Alex Friedrich

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Univ. of Minnesota, Mac top schools for bicyclists

Univ. of Minnesota, Mac top schools for bicyclists

So are there a lot of bicyclists at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College? Should be, since the League of American Bicyclists has ranked the U 9th most bike-friendly campus in the U.S., and Mac has earned an honorable mention. It’s the first year of the rankings, and you can view the announcement here…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Pell cuts, college vouchers and immigration

Pell cuts would come late in the admissions game Quite apart from the merits of cutting Pell or not cutting Pell, there is an important question of timing. If Congress enacts Pell cuts now, colleges will have to send out another round of letters with new, lower aid figures at the very end of the admission…
by Alex Friedrich

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For many students, school lunch will likely cost more next year

For many students, school lunch will likely cost more next year

Thousands of Minnesota students are probably going to be paying more for school lunch next year. School districts are considering raising prices, in part because of a new federal law that essentially requires them to do so.
by Julie Siple

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House's all-GOP conference commitee members

The House has chosen its higher-ed conference committee members — all Republican: Rep. Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls; Rep. Bob Dettmer, R-Forest Lake; Rep. Kurt Daudt, R-Crown; Rep. Pat Mazorol, R-Bloomington; and Rep. David Hancock, R-Bemidji. MnSCU’s  Friends Action Network blog says there’s been no word on when it will meet, but that policy bills should…
by Alex Friedrich

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